Aatish Taseer

Aatish performed on stage for Seriously Entertaining at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater on March 26, 2019, speaking on the evening’s theme, “Seeing Blindly.”

Aatish Taseer is the author of the memoir Stranger to History: A Son’s Journey Through Islamic Lands and three acclaimed novels: The Way Things Were, a finalist for the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize; The Temple-Goers, which was short-listed for the Costa First Novel Award; Noon; and The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He is a contributing writer for The International New York Times and lives in New Delhi and New York.

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